Places rybarrios81 Wants to Go

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.